eClass Video Tips
This page links to our collection of instructional videos that help students and faculty get the most out of eClass. These "Mini-Bytes" are short (~ 3 minutes) clips that will open and play in a new browser window. We are in the process of updating many of these resources so check back often.

eClass Student Mini-Bytes

Communication Tools

Discussions: Organizing, Reading and Posting (video)

Assessments and Assignments

Taking Assessments (Quiz, Survey, Self Test) (video)

Submitting Assignments (video)

eClass Faculty Mini-Bytes

For the courses I am teaching, I want to …

... Add content to my course

Creating Assignments (Video)

Adding Tools (Video)

Adding Files using File Manager (Utah State) (Video)

Building the Homepage (Utah State) (Video)

Structuring Content within Learning Modules (Utah State) (Video)

Adding Student Support Materials (Utah State) (Video)

Adding Web Links (Utah State) (Video)

Uploading and Replacing a Syllabus (Utah State) (Video)

... Manage My Course

Adding a T.A. (Utah State) (Video)

Using Selective Release (Utah State) (Video)

Tracking Student Progress (Utah State) (Video)

Date Rollover (Utah State) (Video)

... Communicate with my students

Discussion (Video)

Using Calendar (Utah State) (Video)

Using Chat Tool (Utah State) (Video)

Using Email Tool (Utah State) (Video)

... Evaluate student performance

Creating Assignments (Video)

Assessments: Creating (Video)

Assessments: Grading (Utah State) (Video)

Assessments: Releasing (Video)

How To: Grading Forms/Rubrics (Utah State) (Video)

... Assign Grades

Manage Gradebook (Utah State) (Video)

Add or Reorder Columns (Video)

Edit Columns (Video)

Column Visibility (Video)

Release Grades (Video)

Support News

Brief eClass Maintenance Outage on Thursday May 17th 2012

Dear eClass users, We would like to inform you that the eClass (Moodle and Blackboard Vista) systems will be offline for about 10 minutes at 5:00 AM on Thursday, May 17th 2012. We will be using this brief outage to fix an urgent issue. If you have any questions, please contact ctl@ualberta.ca. Thank you for your patience. Regards, CTL Technology [...] Added: May 16, 2012

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RESOLVED: Latest Safari Update Has problems with eClass Login

The latest update of Safari, version 5.1.4 released on March 12, 2012 causes some users to experience login issues when accessing eClass. The browser will get stuck in an infinite loop where it switches back and forth between the portal page and the weblogin page. UPDATE: CTL Tech services team implemented a fix on our portal [...] Added: May 15, 2012

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UPDATED: eClass Moodle Problems for PDFs with Adobe Reader Update for Mac/Firefox

The latest release of the Adobe PDF Reader (version 10.1.3) causes problems for some eClass Moodle users when viewing PDFs within courses. This issue only affects users on Mac computers who are using the latest version of Firefox (11). When version 10.1.3 of Adobe Reader gets installed, users can no longer view eClass PDF files using [...] Added: April 13, 2012

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